Kimberly Tripp

Founder/President/Owner, SQLskills.com

Kimberly L. Tripp is the founder/co-owner (with her husband, Paul Randal) of SQLskills.com, a world-renowned training and consulting company. She worked for Microsoft University and on the SQL Server team in the early 1990s but left to consult in 1995. Since then, she has been training, consulting, and speaking on a number of SQL Server areas with performance tuning, VLDBs, and optimization her most common topics. Kimberly is an accomplished writer and presenter with numerous top-speaker awards over the years; she is also a SQL Server MVP. You can read more at SQLskills.com. In her free time, and with her husband, Paul Randal, she likes diving, searching for critters, and underwater photography!